Mbalula fired a few shots in return and said: “Next tweet will be: take a breath, oxygen keeps us alive. uTatakaNoProvince is always telling the world the obvious,” a phrase meaning the father to someone named after the North West province was always rehashing the obvious.

In another reply, Kanye says Obama was in office for eight years and nothing in Chicago changed. Mbalula’s comeback was: “He also named the other after one of our province[s] in South Africa, could not even send prayers when chaos broke out there.”

The election head has since been sharing posts that appear to have significance to slavery.

Colonialism, slavery, apartheid are all in our recent past – so fresh in our minds we live with people and are people who experienced either one of those oppressive systems. More to these, they entrenched systematic inequality that confront us daily.